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Comment by echelon | Hacker News Reader

Reddit and Twitter are going to be overwhelmed with bots indistinguishable from humans.

A lot of reddit and twitter posts are already just people regurgitating and rehashing what they have heard/read from others, mostly without a lot of critical thought. Is this really going to be very different?

You have a point. But now it will happen at scale quickly, cheaply, and easily for an order of magnitude more impact.

Beyond these text-based social media platforms, I could see the next generation of TikTok/Instagram "influencer" social media adopting AI rails so there's next to zero effort put into creation. The photography, trends, personalities - all of it - will be generated.

It's a matter of scale, you could have personalized propaganda for each community.

Your comment reminds me of something I read in Ouspensky's narrative of the teachings of Gurdjieff: (from memory) most people are automatons, so they don't actually operate at a very high level of intelligence to begin with.

The above was also expressed (in less cruel terms) by DFW in his "what is water" commencement speech at Kenyon College: (again, from memory) it is our natural tendency to operate in "default mode", which we must fight.

Please don't "namedrop" by using acronyms for people that you (perhaps subconsciously) assume are absolutely known to all. David Foster-Wallace is just fine.

Your point is valid. However, it was laziness due to typing on mobile rather than pretentiousness or attempting to show off. I find it interesting that you would impute "namedropping" as the explanation for what I did :)

Agree with this comment writing like a teen: " Reddit and Twitter are going to be overwhelmed with bots indistinguishable from humans. "

    Totally agree. It's crazy to think that bots could be indistinguishable from humans. Like, how are we even supposed to know who's real and who's not? It's kind of scary, but also kind of cool in a weird way. But yeah, I can definitely see how it could be a problem if there are too many bots on social media. It could be really confusing and overwhelming. So, I hope there's a way to deal with it.

Ye ... ChatGPT can easily pose as an random Reddit comment writer. Just remove the tryhard "'". Those kind of communities will implode. The comments there are already kinda random and have almost no thread running through them. Perfect for ChatGPT.

Imagine how easy it will be to create big fake subs and gaslight people into believing something is sub consensus?

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